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What Do You See When You See a Homeless Person?
Everyone once in their lives has probably seen a homeless person. The most important thing in a person’s life is their home and a homeless person has lost it.
Every homeless person was once a baby and a lot has happened from that point to the fact that today they are homeless.
Maybe they never had a family to take care of them and after being in the governmental system for years, they just gave up and decided they would be better off it and on their own.
Maybe they had a family but they disagreed in how they wanted to live their lives, ending up on them either leaving or being forced to leave.
Maybe they had a good family and even started their own family, but because of a mental illness, an alcohol and drugs addiction, a bad divorce, or any other external factor they lost their family and their home.
Before I used to think that homeless people were very different from me. In the past, I could never relate to a homeless person. Now, I know we are the same. We are both human beings, but I (still) have resources and they don’t.
I don’t feel pity when I see a homeless person, but I can see their pain. The pain of not having a fresh meal, a fresh shower, a fresh piece of clothes and a fresh sheet. The pain of abandonment, not only from…
